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Related: About this forumHillary Clinton Fumed About Changing Passports For Same-Sex Parents In 2011
Hillary Clinton Fumed About Changing Passports For Same-Sex Parents In 2011
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WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton was furious about a 2011 State Department decision to replace the words "mother" and "father" with gender-neutral terms on U.S. passport applications, warning of the wrath of Sarah Palin, according to newly released emails.
"Who made the decision that State will not use the terms 'mother and father' and instead substitute 'parent one and two'? Clinton wrote in an email to staff on Jan. 8, 2011. The email was released Wednesday by the State Department as part of an ongoing dump of emails that Clinton sent from a personal account during her time as secretary of state.
"Im not defending that decision, which I disagree w and knew nothing about, in front of this Congress. I could live w letting people in nontraditional families choose another descriptor so long as we retained the presumption of mother and father," she wrote. "We need to address this today or we will be facing a huge Fox-generated media storm led by [Sarah] Palin et al."
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WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton was furious about a 2011 State Department decision to replace the words "mother" and "father" with gender-neutral terms on U.S. passport applications, warning of the wrath of Sarah Palin, according to newly released emails.
"Who made the decision that State will not use the terms 'mother and father' and instead substitute 'parent one and two'? Clinton wrote in an email to staff on Jan. 8, 2011. The email was released Wednesday by the State Department as part of an ongoing dump of emails that Clinton sent from a personal account during her time as secretary of state.
"Im not defending that decision, which I disagree w and knew nothing about, in front of this Congress. I could live w letting people in nontraditional families choose another descriptor so long as we retained the presumption of mother and father," she wrote. "We need to address this today or we will be facing a huge Fox-generated media storm led by [Sarah] Palin et al."
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Hillary Clinton Fumed About Changing Passports For Same-Sex Parents In 2011 (Original Post)
FreakinDJ
Nov 2015
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JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)1. DU beat this silliness to death a few months ago.
You miss it?
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)2. Looks like her email
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)3. Stick with it.
The context around that email has already been covered in great detail. But please proceed.